Trauma Therapy (2014 Rerun)

Psychology In Seattle Podcast

Kirk Honda

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

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[Rerun] Dr. Kirk Honda talks about trauma therapy. (Intro)

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October 8, 2014

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Psychology in Seattle. I'm your host, Kirk Honda, professor and licensed therapist.
0:07.0	Today I want to talk about trauma treatment. In my experience, most therapists do not know how to treat PTSD or trauma effectively.
0:17.1	I know that's quite a statement, but I think it's true. There's evidence, and I could provide research to back me up here.
0:25.6	But in this episode, I want to keep it quick and dirty, and so I'm not going to go into the research.
0:31.2	But certainly anecdotally, in my experience, and even in my own career, evaluating my own competence, I can say that
0:38.1	the skills involved and the knowledge involved in treating people who have experienced trauma
0:45.0	are quite complex and for whatever reason are not propagated through the culture of
0:50.5	psychotherapy and counseling. And as a result, I think a lot of clients are going to
0:56.5	therapists and being treated with dubious treatment modalities and walking away without being
1:05.9	helped and maybe even being harmed. So in this episode, I want to talk about trauma treatment, not only to you
1:13.6	clinicians out there, but also to you non-clinicians, to you potential clients, because I think that
1:20.7	for whatever reason in our culture, we haven't talked enough about trauma to help people, to seek
1:26.7	help from the people that might be able to help them.
1:29.3	I think for a lot of people when they have been traumatized, they are told at some point you
1:34.8	should see a therapist. But what they aren't told, which is what I think they should be told,
1:39.2	is you should see a therapist that knows what they're doing because not all therapists are the
1:44.1	same when it comes to
1:45.1	treating trauma. Hey, Desirving listeners, I'm chiming in from the future. This is me in 2025. What you've
1:51.1	been listening to is an episode from 2014 in which I talked about my approach to trauma therapy and my
1:56.8	mistakes as a therapist early on that I learned from. In this episode, I detail pretty comprehensively my approach, my integrated approach,
2:07.1	to helping people with trauma, PTSD, complex PTSD, personality disorders, et cetera.
2:13.2	And I, you know, go into detail. But I'm also fairly concise in that.
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